Taylor Swift Persuades Fans to the Polls in Video: ‘You Have to Go and Make Change by Voting’

Taylor Swift continued her increasingly outspoken political activism on Tuesday by reminding her fans to hit the polls on Election Day.
Oh yeah, you gotta go vote today.” Joking aside, the 28-year-old pop powerhouse addressed her millions of followers with inspiring, need-to-know facts as the country heads into the most controversial midterm decision in recent history.
“You have to go and make change by voting and today is your opportunity to do that.
RELATED: Taylor Swift Breaks Silence on Politics, Slamming Republican Candidate — and Katy Perry Supports “In the past I’ve been reluctant to publicly voice my political opinions, but due to several events in my life and in the world in the past two years, I feel very differently about that now,” Swift wrote.
“I always have and always will cast my vote based on which candidate will protect and fight for the human rights I believe we all deserve in this country,” she continued.
Running for Senate in the state of Tennessee is a woman named Marsha Blackburn.
As much as I have in the past and would like to continue voting for women in office, I cannot support Marsha Blackburn.” Later on Tuesday, Swift reposted Bredesen’s post saying he voted, adding the message, “Good luck today!
!” Swift’s post caused a spike in voter registration.
“We are up to 65,000 registrations in a single 24-hour period since T. Swift’s post,” Kamari Guthrie, Vote.org’s director of communications, told BuzzFeed News.
“Vote.org saw [Tennessee] registrations spike specifically since Taylor’s post,” Guthrie told BuzzFeed News.

“I’m seeing a lot of underestimation of young voters and this new generation who now have the right to vote just in the last couple of years, but these are people who grew up post 9/11, they grew up with school shooting drills at their schools,” Swift said. “These are people who want to vote.”

“It’s not enough to just want change. It’s not enough to just want to vote,” she continued in the video series. “You have to go and make change by voting and today is your opportunity to do that. I promise you it feels so wonderful to exercise that right that you have.”

She then signed off with a cheerful “Happy voting, you guys” — and a reminder to tag her in any #justvoted selfies that they share.

Swift famously — and controversially — remained reticent on her political leanings until…

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